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Economists are pleased, but puzzled at the week of record economic growth affecting all major stock indexes this week. To quote Norman Chatal, rival of several others at Harvard University for chair of the economics department,"It isn't that it isn't good, but it's kind of a blip. It's at least two statistical variances off of what the numbers would indicate. A bit of good luck in one country or one segment of the economy is to be expected, but *ALL* of them? It's never happened since we've been tracking the data."
There are large holes in the data, and some economists remain skeptical. Large war zones, for example, are notorious to track such as the conflict in Southern Sudan, the Crimea or Somalia. But it has raised a lot of eyebrows, "It's actually done some good. Some economies being driven into the ground by existential gridlock like Mauritania and Thailand also grew and we DO have data on those." Still, chaos seems to be prevalent in at one place, with the Crimea still reporting everything but basic services in Russian occupied areas not working at all.
On the whole, whatever the cause, this has been extremely beneficial for the world economy as a whole, making the global annual GNP increase, whatever it may be, as much as 1% higher and in some cases with some nations, at least 20% higher. Apocriphical accounts in Serbia and Genosha are showing numbers that are simply being rejected out of hand as propaganda at this point. Chantal says, "These kind of numbers can be confirmed by real data that shows interactions with other countries, such as balance of trade, repayment of IMF and World Bank loans etc. You simply can't sustain this kind of nonsense in the long run, so we'll see what happens."